Siberian Iris - Iris sibirica
Rhizomatous, with hollow stems often branched, and flat leaves. Flowers usually blue/purple with white patch of outer tepals, but other cultivars exist. Brown papery bracts when in flower.
Other cultivated Iris may be found as garden escapes or deliberated planted - e.g. varieties and hybrids of Iris laevigata, I. spuria, I. versicolor, I. ensata. These have solid stems and bracts at least partly green at flowering (ref. Stace, 4th edn.)
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Pond margins and other marshy habitats, or rough ground
Occasionally planted by ponds in naturalising situations, or escaped from gardens
Occasional
Stace, C. (2019) New Flora of the British Isles (4th edn.). C & M Floristics
Rob Sayer
Leicester, Washbrook Nature Area
16 May 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Siberian Iris
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Iridaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 16/05/2023 (Sayer, Robert)
- Last record:
- 16/05/2023 (Sayer, Robert)
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